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when there is a due mixture and proportion 

 of warm and cold, wet and dry 5 but when 

 thefeafons deviate far to any extreme of thefe, 

 then are they lefs or more injurious to the 

 feveral forts of Vegetables, according to the 

 very different degrees of hardinefs, or healthy 

 latitude they enjoy. 



The different feafons in which plants thrive 

 beft, feem to depend, among other caufes, on 

 the very different quantities imbibed and per- 

 fpired by different kinds of plants. Thus 

 the Ever-greens perfpiring little, and having 

 thereby a thick, vifcid, oily fap, they can the 

 better endure the winter's cold, and fubfifl 

 with little frem nourifhment : They feem 

 many of them to flourifh mod in the tem- 

 perate feafons of the year, but not fo well in 

 the hotteft part of fummer, becaufe their per- 

 foration is then fomewhat too great, in pro- 

 portion to the flow afcent of the fap, which 

 makes fome of them at that feafon to abate of 

 their vigour : Thus fome plants, which grow 

 and thrive with the flow perfpiration of Ja- 

 7iuary and February, perirfi as the fpring ad- 

 vances, and the warmth and perfpiration is 

 too great for them. And thus Garden Peas 

 and Beans, which are fown in what is found 

 to be their proper feafon, viz. in November, 



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